This video shows how garbage can profit the environment. Burkina Faso’s first plastic recycling centre is paving the way for a new kind of development project. It provides a money earner to the poor while tackling environmental pollution. Local industry also benefits – the recycled plastic granules cost half the price of importing new plastic from abroad.

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Organization: ILO

Topics: Labour, Green Jobs/Economy

Type of material: Audio-Visual Resource

Publication date: 2007

Language: English